The Bali summit: Why is the British government’s energy policy not delivering on its climate change targets? Because it has been nobbled

by David Thorpe
December 4, 2007

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So, why was it that Jeremy Leggett was the only leading thinker in the ‘single breakthrough’ sampler to suggest greater use of renewables? The answer is abundantly clear in ‘The energy battle’.

In Britain, as in America, lobbies rule, and that is our most fundamental problem. Renewables don’t seem to have a lobby, nor unions, nor any other attribute that means ministers will lend them an ear.